Graham Slick

Early Photography

Photographs from his years at UMass Amherst: staged scenes with friends, on a bus, in fields and woods, and off a television screen.

When: 1994–1998
Where: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Medium: Photographs

Photographs from Graham’s years studying graphic design and photography at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Most are staged with friends: young men in shirts and ties across a scaffold, two passengers in matching sweaters on a bus, an empty picture frame held up in a field and among trees, three men in white shirts in the woods, and a white convertible by the road.

Others are stark black-and-white pictures of a television screen, and one is a portrait in alien makeup.

A young man holds up an empty picture frame in a field of tall grass — Framed

A man stands among bare trees holding an empty frame — Framed

Old lamps lying in a dry field, two figures behind them — Framed

Two young men in matching striped sweaters on a bus — Bus

The empty aisle of a bus, seen from the floor — Bus

Young men in white shirts and ties posed across a scaffold — Arnot

A man in a white shirt calls out beside a tree, another figure behind him — Three

Two men climbing out of a white convertible — Three

A face in alien makeup: pale skin and huge black eyes — Alien

A hand over a face on a television screen, in stark black and white

A face behind a raised hand on a television screen, in stark black and white

A figure in black and white, half lost in a streak of light — Reflection